Two days ago, July 19th, marked the ten-year anniversary of my starting up this blog. When I started the blog, the bulk of my posts for the first few years had to do with Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis, and the Young Earth Creation movement as a whole. In fact, much what I wrote served as “rough drafts” of many things that are in my book, The Heresy of Ham.
In addition to that subject, I also have done numerous book reviews and “book analysis series,” posts specifically about Biblical Studies topics, posts about literature, as well as occasional posts about social, cultural issues. Sprinkled in among all those kinds of posts have been many miscellaneous posts on things that just happened to interest me at the time. Interestingly enough, here are my Top Five Posts of all time:
1. C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity: The Trinity
2. “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot: A Reading and Explanation
3. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot: Some Thoughts and a Reading
4. The Genre, Historical Context, and Purpose of Genesis 1-11
5. Biblical Intertextuality: Jonah in Moby Dick (Father Mapple’s Sermon): Part 2
In any case, in addition to these posts, I thought it might be interesting to link the first post in the various series I’ve done over the years, as well as some particular “stand out/stand alone” posts. Perhaps you are relatively new to this blog and haven’t explored all the past topics I’ve covered, so feel free to do some exploring! With each of the following posts, you can navigate to the succeeding posts by just hitting the “next post” button at the bottom. Or you can just type in the topic or person I’m discussing in the navigation box and find the other posts in the series. Next to each post I’m including the number in the series.
THE LIST
Book Review: “Surprised by Scripture” by N.T. Wright (Part 1)…and why I don’t believe in miracles! [10]
Why I am Not Teaching This Year…and the Heresy of Ken Ham
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity” [31]
Let’s Get Hitched! My Assessment of Christopher Hitchens and the New Atheist Movement [7]
Inspiration and Inerrancy….My Two Cents
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Enlightenment, Christianity, and the Philosopher of the Hammer [6]
Getting Naked With Soren Kierkegaard: Yes, You Should be Self-Conscious! [5]
Understanding the Bible: Why I Don’t Like the Term “Inerrancy”
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Importance of Myth (…and how it relates to Genesis 1-11)
Irenaeus of Lyon, and the Early Church’s Teaching of Adam and Eve (Part 1) [5]
Book Review: Karl Giberson’s “Saving the Original Sinner” (Part 1) [5]
Biblical Intertextuality: Looking for Jonah in Modern Literature and Film (Part 1) [8]
Book Review: Sam Harris and “The End of Faith” (The Bible, Part 1) [11]
Disarming Richard Dawkins’ Delusions (Part 1) [22]
The Apostle Paul and His Letter to the Romans: A Mini-Commentary (Part 1) [21]
The Unintended Reformation (i.e. Why Luther and Calvin should be blamed for the ACLU) (Part 1) [10]
The Book of Revelation: It’s Finally Here–Something that Will Help You Understand It! (Part 1) [21]
Ken Ham’s Ark: My Close Encounter of the (un)Biblical Kind, Part 1 [5]
Isaiah 7:14: Misconceptions and False Assumptions…and What that Means for Jesus (Part 1) [5]
Adam, Augustine, and the Doctrine of Original Sin (Part 1) [4]
Israel’s Conquest of Canaan: Questions and Controversies–A Look at John Walton’s New Book (Part 1) [6]
The Jewish War Series (Part 1: The Beginning of the Revolt) [20]
An Extended Analysis of Ken Ham’s Book “Six Days” (Part 1: Blame the Satanic Christian Academics) [7]
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 1): A Book Analysis Series [12]
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 1): How a Twitter Battle Roped Me Assessing the Absurd [4]
[Genesis 1-11 Series] Making Sense of Genesis 1: The Fundamental Biblical Worldview [10]
Going “godless”: An Extended Book Analysis of Dan Barker’s “godless” (Part 1) [12]
Faith vs. Fact, by Jerry Coyne: An Extended Book Analysis (Part 1) [13]
A NEW SERIES! The Use of Old Testament Prophecies in the New Testament (Part 1–Introduction) [8]
George Floyd, Protests, and Rioting (Part 1): What is Not the Core Problem [4]
“Goodbye, Jesus”–A Book Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 1: An Overview of the Book) [5]
Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Bishop Kallistos Ware (Part 1): The Journey [12]
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Burnt Norton [ALL POSTS on ELIOT] [7]
A New Book Analysis Series: “Jesus and John Wayne” (Part 1) [10]
“Thinking Orthodox”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 1: Introduction) [6]
Let’s Start a Series on the Early Church Fathers! (Introduction) [6]
A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 1 and 2) [3]
A Book Analysis of “The Exodus: Myth History?” (Part 1) [6]
A Book Analysis Series of Francesca Stavrakopoulou’s Book, “God: An Anatomy” (Part 1: A Backstory) [10]
“The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis”–A Book Review Series (Part 1) [4]
Evangelicalism in the Crosshairs: Kobes Du Mez, Constantine Campbell…and Francis Schaeffer (Part 1) [4]
“God’s Monsters” by Esther Hamori: A New Book Analysis Series (Part 1) [6]
A Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Dive into Galatians (Part 1) [7]
A New Book Analysis Series: Beth Allison Barr’s “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” (Part 1) [5]
“Rescuing Inerrancy,” by Hugh Ross: A Book Review Series (Part 1: Chapters 1-4–What’s the Problem?) [6]
A Trip to Winesburg, Ohio: A New Literary Series (Part 1: The Book of the Grotesque) [10]
“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 1) [6]
Happy Anniversary! I enjoy reading your book reviews; among the handful that I read, I especially like Francesca Stavrakopoulou’s book where you employed what you learned about OT literature at Regent as a counter narrative. Keep up the good work!
as a fellow Regent grad I applaud and appreciate your writings.
Happy Blog-a-versary Joel!